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1. The cry made by sheep.
4. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
8. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
11. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
12. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
15. A city in northern India.
16. Extremely pleasing.
17. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
19. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. (informal) Of the highest quality.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
25. King of Wessex.
26. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
29. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. Lacking self-confidence.
35. A port in southwestern Scotland.
36. Serving as or forming a base.
38. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
42. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
43. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
44. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
45. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
3. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
4. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
5. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
6. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
7. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
8. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
9. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
10. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
18. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
20. A genus of Ploceidae.
22. Again but in a new or different way.
24. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
27. Lower in esteem.
28. An oil port in southern Iraq.
30. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
31. United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941).
32. A particular environment or walk of life.
37. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
39. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
40. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
41. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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